The Congregational Review, Volume 2J.M. Whittemore, 1862 - Congregationalism |
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... Holy Scriptures ; and the Scriptures , not the opinions of men , not of learned men , no , not of good men , no , not of many learned and good men , are the rule of our faith . . . . But it is the word and revelation of God alone upon ...
... Holy Scriptures ; and the Scriptures , not the opinions of men , not of learned men , no , not of good men , no , not of many learned and good men , are the rule of our faith . . . . But it is the word and revelation of God alone upon ...
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... Holy Ghost ? ] of the universal sinfulness of mankind . I mean that nature is a cause , therefore , which , though certainly fol- lowed with depravity , is yet as truly subject to man's powers of moral agency , as it would be were all ...
... Holy Ghost ? ] of the universal sinfulness of mankind . I mean that nature is a cause , therefore , which , though certainly fol- lowed with depravity , is yet as truly subject to man's powers of moral agency , as it would be were all ...
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... holy without our own choice and endeavor , and , lastly , because God hath endowed us with understanding , and fur- nished us with all proper means to enable us to gain a character of worth and excellence . . . . It is absolutely ...
... holy without our own choice and endeavor , and , lastly , because God hath endowed us with understanding , and fur- nished us with all proper means to enable us to gain a character of worth and excellence . . . . It is absolutely ...
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... holy heart . . . . But you say , the sinner resists what God is now doing , and he will resist unless God does more . Yes , the sinner resists what God is now doing ; and what is worse , he always will resist it in every future moment ...
... holy heart . . . . But you say , the sinner resists what God is now doing , and he will resist unless God does more . Yes , the sinner resists what God is now doing ; and what is worse , he always will resist it in every future moment ...
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... holy things , Whose ear is stuff'd with his cotton , and rings Even in dreams to the chink of his pence , " who has come down into the country to preach down the war . The race is not yet run out on each side the Atlantic . And if the ...
... holy things , Whose ear is stuff'd with his cotton , and rings Even in dreams to the chink of his pence , " who has come down into the country to preach down the war . The race is not yet run out on each side the Atlantic . And if the ...
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Page 181 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying ; Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 575 - If his children forsake My law, and walk not in My judgments, if they break My statutes, and keep not My commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless My lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail.
Page 177 - But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Page 655 - Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
Page 177 - For it is written, that Abraham had two sons; the one by a bond-maid, the other by a freewoman.
Page 36 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee : Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Page 514 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 88 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 31 - For the drift of the Maker is dark, an Isis hid by the veil. Who knows the ways of the world, how God will bring them about ? Our planet is one, the suns are many, the world is wide. Shall I weep if a Poland fall ? shall I shriek if a Hungary fail ? Or an infant civilisation be ruled with rod or with knout ? I have not made the world, and He that made it will guide.
Page 30 - And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.